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Supplies. — Ordinary supplies can be obtained, and good water is 

 easily taken from the mouth of a river in the next large bay to the 

 westward. 



Communication. — Communication is maintained with St. Johns 

 and other ports along the coast during summer by a steamer weekly, 

 and there is telegraphic communication. Nearly all intercourse be- 

 tween the villages is by water, as there are no roads, with the ex- 

 ception of one from Rose Blanche to harbor le Cou. 



Ice. — Kose Blanche occasionally freezes with thin ice, but when 

 gulf ice is pressed in by southwesterly winds it becomes a serious 

 obstruction. 



Rose Blanche shoals are several rocky heads, the outer of which 

 bears 221°, distant 1,900 yards from the lighthouse, and has over it a 

 least depth of 2 fathoms; north-northwestward 300 yards from this 

 shoal is a patch of 2^ fathoms, and northeastward 600 yards from it 

 are three other patches with less than 3 fathoms of water over them ; 

 all break heavily. 



Shag rocks, west-southwestward, distant 1:^ miles from Rose 

 Blanche point, are a group of rocl^y ledges, the highest of which is 17 

 feet high. To the southeastward of this ledge are some rocks which 

 dry 5 feet, and at 400 yards from the highest ledge there is a rock 

 with 9,1 fathoms over it. Bearing 40°, distant 600 yards from this 

 rock, is a ledge on which the depth is from 2 to 3 fathoms. These 

 rocks break heavily in any swell, but they are steep-to, and in calm 

 weather should be approached with caution. 



Northwestward, a little over 400 yards from the highest Shag rock, 

 is a patch having 1 fathom water over it; it is white rock and is 

 distinctly visible from a short distance. 



Duck island, between Shag rocks and the mainland, is 60 feet 

 high and covered with coarse grass; eastward of it there are several 

 rocky heads, making the channel between it and Duckling, the small 

 islet inside, very dangerous at high water, when they may not be 

 visible. Off the western end of Duckling there is a rocky shoal with 

 a least depth of 10 feet, but between the two, very close to the islet, 

 there is a deep channel used by the coasting steamers. The north 

 side of Duck island is tolerably steep and clear of shoals. 



Butterpot, a conspicuous fiat-topped hill near the head of Otter 

 bay, open southwestward of Tinker island, bearing 279°, clears Shag 

 rock and Rose Blanche shoals. 



Hopkins island, lying inside Duck island and fronting a deep 

 bay locally known as West arm, is 89 feet high and of the same rocW 

 sterile nature as the neighboring coast, from which its northern 

 point is separated by a shallow passage, 150 feet wide. Together 

 with the mainland this island forms, on its western side, a bav, the 



